Welcome to my collection about gardens and their gardeners.
Over the subsequent few months I will probably be including to my common #SixOnSaturday posts with Sunday spots for fellow gardeners.
Meet up with earlier posts on this collection beneath:
Fred and his backyard in Normandy, France right here.
Sarah and her Australian backyard right here.
Páraig and his Irish backyard right here.
Selwa and her Belgium backyard right here.
Let’s discover out extra about Amelia and her backyard.
Please are you able to inform us the place on this planet you reside and the way lengthy you have got been together with your present backyard.
I reside on the Atlantic coast of Florida about 50 miles north of West Palm Seashore in Jensen Seashore. We purchased this home in 2012.
What’s the fundamental soil kind? And what are the advantages or challenges of this soil?
My backyard is on high of the Atlantic Ridge, 30 ft above sea stage and the ‘soil’ is completely sugar sand. The one advantages I’m conscious of are that it’s straightforward to dig small holes (huge ones collapse) and drains effectively. In any other case, it’s devoid of vitamins, leans in the direction of alkalinity, doesn’t maintain water, however oddly manages to develop many kinds of lush, tropical vegetation.
Have you ever made any main modifications to your backyard or have you ever any new plans for modifications?
A backyard was a serious change once we purchased this property, I christened its look because the seaside with weeds. I’m at present eliminating the garden in my entrance backyard and changing the realm to go together with my present pollinator backyard. Florida has almost ruined their coastal estuaries by permitting multitudes of acres of garden to be doused with water and nitrogen for lawns. I’m making an attempt to get off the garden wagon.
Do you have got a selected backyard fashion that you simply attempt to preserve to? ie natural, cottage backyard, rose backyard, conventional for the local weather and so on.
I’m not certain I’ve a method. I’ve divided the backyard right into a Rainforest Backyard, designed to be seen from the Dwelling Room home windows like you’re looking right into a Rainforest. It’s planted with all tropical vegetation. I’ve my very own tiny Meals Forest planted with tropical fruit timber and my entrance backyard is form of a tropical cottage backyard (if that’s attainable) the vegetation chosen to draw and host butterflies.
Inform us about a few of your favorite vegetation and why you want them.
Bromeliads fascinate me, they’re almost indestructible and carefree right here, hardly ever require upkeep or water and the colors are limitless. Heliconias, the last word tropical flower. I like the massive Lobsterclaws and small groundcover model, one other straightforward plant – although they love water. I believe Salvia is my favorite flower within the backyard, once more indestructible they usually can flower 12 months spherical right here. Crops that aren’t a ache to have a tendency and reward the gardener are my favourites.
I see that you simply additionally design gardens, how lengthy have you ever been doing this? Do you have got a desire for a measurement and sort of backyard to work with, do you specialize in gardens in Florida or do you’re employed in any a part of America?
Properly, I’m largely retired. I’ve a level in Panorama Structure from the College of Georgia that’s forty years previous! Throughout that point I labored everywhere in the Jap US and designed something from gardens to workplace buildings and even interior-scapes for purchasing malls when that was standard. I nonetheless design the occasional butterfly or residential backyard and have been writing articles for gardening magazines. I turned a pollinator backyard fanatic upon transferring to South Florida and seeing the improbable butterflies right here – it’s also evident to me that we as gardeners must assist bugs for the higher good and cease killing our bugs. I can’t develop orchids anyplace however in timber. Each final one in a pot or the home has died a sluggish, painful demise. I’m horrible with houseplants. The orchids develop naturally in timber right here and are surprisingly resilient.
Please be a part of me in thanking Amelia for sharing her backyard with us as we speak.
For extra weblog posts from Amelia comply with her weblog (The Shrub Queen) right here.
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